| Description |
xiv, 363 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Cards on the Table -- 2. The Chase: Flashback, 1965 -- 3. Smart-Ass and Cutie-Pie: Notes Toward the Evaluation of Altman (1975) -- 4. The Incoherent Text: Narrative in the 70s -- 5. The American Nightmare: Horror in the 70s -- 6. Normality and Monsters: The Films of Larry Cohen and George Romero -- 7. Brian De Palma: The Politics of Castration -- 8. Papering the Cracks: Fantasy and Ideology in the Reagan Era -- 9. Horror in the 80s -- 10. Images and Women -- 11. From Buddies to Lovers -- 12. Two Films by Martin Scorsese -- 13. Two Films by Michael Cimino -- 14. Day of the Dead: The Woman's Nightmare -- 15. On and Around My Best Friend's Wedding -- 16. Teens, Parties, and Rollercoasters: A Genre of the 90s -- 17. Hollywood Today: Is an Oppositional Cinema Possible? |
| Notes |
Rev. ed. of: Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan, 1986 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [351]-352) and index |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- United States -- History.
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Motion pictures -- Political aspects.
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| SUBJECT |
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115352
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| Author |
Wood, Robin, 1931-2009.
Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan
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| LC no. |
2003043514 |
| ISBN |
023112967X (paper : alk. paper) |
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0231129661 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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